The creator victimised by Johnny’s boy-band KAT-TUN, AVTechNO!, writes that a settlement was reached with the plagiarists:

Regarding the “DYE” incident, the producers of “NEVER x OVER” have admitted the influence of “DYE” on their song, and have taken appropriate action to settle the matter.

My sincere apologies for worrying any KAT-TUN fans with my words. KAT-TUN were not at fault – I wish them the best in future.

His vagueness and apologetic tone can probably be taken as an indication that he received cash or royalties in return for keeping his mouth shut so as to allow KAT-TUN to escape with their image and sales intact.

No hating on the otakus, please! I, for one, am a fan of Vocaloids as well as Johnny’s Entertainment. I know that they care about this issue because it was something bad committed against something they love. I know I’d be upset if someone copyrighted a song from my favorite Johnny’s group ;A;
The issue of Jin leaving was bigger because it obviously had a big effect on the group. But, I know they’ll be fine going on without him!

Wonder if they have Play dolls like they do of the Beiber? Obviously NOT marketed to boys.

I wish I had money to blow, I would buy a Beiber Doll ($19.95) put it in a bondage-girl outfit with a double-ended dildo sticking out. Then spread it around so it would burn out the eyes of a few Beiber girls.

Is that what you like to do in your spare time?
My, what a life you have. Scarring little girls and taking away their innocent love. Oh my! That sounds similar to a pedophile! Not that i’m calling you one, though… Just thought that sounded similar.

Dear God, what ever happened to RESPECT? This goes for the COMPOSER and for all you bashers as well.
CAN’T YOU GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS THAT KAT-TUN IS NOT AT FAULT? And if you don’t like them for being idols, or for having longer-than-the-American-norm hair, or whatever the hell reason you have for this unnecessary hate, it doesn’t HAVE to concern you, you know. They are what they’re like because it’s what THEIR fans like. Not YOU. They OBVIOUSLY aren’t aiming for your attention, so you shouldn’t care. I hate how people are using the words “Homo” or “fag” or all that crap to describe them when you DON’T EVEN KNOW THE BAND. And this includes those of you who’ve “heard of them, maybe a few songs too, but don’t care”
So, just be HAPPY that this is RESOLVED and get on with your lives. Thank you.

I cannot access the content of adverts to perverted stuff, it tells me “The connection was reset”. I also cannot access video.baidu.jp, it just happened when I was watching videos there, and since then I cannot connect. As if someone censored my internet…

My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy create shitty songs as if they only know power chords and nothing else. For all the flack they catch for being terrible bands, at least they have some will to pick up an instrument and play them themselves.

I feel humiliated to be an Asian sometimes, in this day and age. Boybands are a fad that should have died off along with NSync, and yet these faggots can still live off all the miming and prancing on stage while looking like drag queens. The Koreans picking this up isn’t making things any better.

Meh, rip-offs in the music industry. Nowadays it feels like every “new” mainstream song is just a cheap imitation of some song from the ’80s.
Who cares? The music mafia makes trillions with never-ending rehashes.

First I thought that they were a girl-band, but then I read that it was a boy-band and I was… WTF is wrong with their look? They look so girlish. Try to convince me different. I don’t like these types of bands and their managers that they only know about money, money and nothing else. Let’s look at Justin ”whatever his last name is.” Does he has a voice? NO, but his manager thought since he looks nice and he has a emo haircut let’s just use and make him sing then use Auto-Tune so the 10-15 years old girls that don’t know about music will buy his album and in that way making money. Hell if I use Auto-Tune I can sing like Celine Dion, Elvis Presley or every band/singer I want to.

u know japanese musicians especially visual kei (not exactly these guys) were already adapting the girly look and ’emo’ hair like in the 90’s and some even late 80’s. So its not like its a new thing at all. Even though heaps of jpop do use auto tune, a lot less and i mean a whole amount less use auto tune in the japanese music industry. I’m a singer myself and my ears can pick up the smallest use of it and i trust my ears. So even though these guys probs do use it (don’t personally listen to them) there are heaps of very decent singers in japan through out all forms of music that don’t use auto tune. Unlike the rest of the dam world especially the US that use it from pop to hardcore and metal.

Kattun here, Kattun there…
They are puppets of the industry and have shit saying in the matter…It’s not Kattun being at fault but the management, label and studio behind them…

They are an IDOL group…Whatever they do it’s the idea of the ppl in the background…They are nothing more than a mere Vocaloid…Someone writes the lyrics, someone makes the melody and they just sing and perform it…

Sounds to me like the issue’s been resolved. Royalties for an homage song are a common thing anyway, it’s just a shame that whoever wrote it thought they would be able to do it without the internet coming after them. But whatever, no need to destroy a band over it as long as all those involved get paid and they are wary of it in the future.

Forget about them. Every teenager in this country looks like Justin god damn Beiber now, and the haircut sucks. It not only sucks, they’re constantly doing that stupid head swish to get it out of their eyes. Their peripheral vision’s gone too. I saw one moron with that haircut walk into a pillar in a mall… or maybe he was just a moron. Either way it doesn’t make a good argument for that stupid haircut.

If that’s good looking hair, then that says more about the intelligence of teenage girls than anything about guys’ fashion sense. The hair constantly looks like bed-head and is disproportioning their head to their bodies half the time. At least Beiber has a woman stylist doing his damn hair each time so it looks like half a decent sculpture.

“His vagueness and apologetic tone can probably be taken as an indication that he received cash or royalties in return for keeping his mouth shut so as to allow KAT-TUN to escape with their image and sales intact.”

You might say that the KAT got his TUN (tongue). No? Eh, didn’t like the joke either, but I’m bored, so 😛

You contracted a worker to write a piece for you and you stick it into your book. It turns out a chunk of that is copied from some other book.

Granted there are still billions of book out there and you can’t check them all. You can claim it’s contracted out and you checked for plagiarism to the best of your ability yet you’d still have to pay under the law. You’re still guilty of copyright infringement.

but in this case the group doesn’t really get to choose. they were just given the song and told to sing it. I do agree that it would be unknowing infringement, but here’s the problem: do you blame the people that were simply told to sing the song, or the person who actually plagiarized (the composer)?

It’s called due diligence, or incompetency in other industries. As pointed out, they sing only what their producer gives them however as the band are entirely owned by their producers they are relatedly at fault.

Okay for one, who said they are trying to imitate any sort of music style? Only the makers of the music are the judge of that.
Two, they aren’t in the entertainment industry for competing against people, let alone people they probably haven’t even heard of. Opinions are opinions, and obviously you like your music so just leave it at that. KAT-TUN sing for their fans who love and support them, and is that not respectable to you?
THREE. Do NOT throw the words “emo” or “punk” around ignorantly. They are most definitely NOT either one of those.

why do people not listen, Kat-tun is a homo version of american boy band trash. these emo punks don’t stand shit against JAM project. now that’s music, not faggotty noises like what those copy cats make

guys, don’t blame the band. I’m a fan of both and it might sound bias, but it’s not their fault. They don’t compose their own songs, and if they do, they’re not the ones who edit it. I doubt they even listen to vocaloid songs.